Audio: 1974

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This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List! Mono 7" Singles & EPs (up to 1976) are now here, and Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here. For details of all 1973-74 single releases of A Fool Such As I, now see here.

If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to existing entries, please let me know! Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities - see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the dealers on my Trading page for assistance!

Revised: 12 April, 2008


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Barry Goldberg - "Barry Goldberg" - vinyl LP, Atco SD 7040 (USA/UK), 1974:
Atco was a subsidiary "specialty" label of Atlantic Records. Bob, who co-produced the album with Jerry Wexler,  contributes back-up vocals on five tracks and plays percussion on "It's Not The Spotlight" - this album has not been reissued on CD, although other Goldberg albums are available.

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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - front scan by Kenneth Robson

R-0106 Stormy Weather Cowboy (Barry Goldberg)

R-0107 It's Not The Spotlight (Gerry Goffin-Barry Goldberg)

R-0108 Silver Moon (Barry Goldberg

R-0109 Minstrel Show (Barry Goldberg)

R-0110 Big City Woman (Barry Goldberg)

The copy of SD 7040 owned by Hans Seegers is the original pressing and has Atlantic Records' address as "1841 Broadway, New York, NY". Kenneth Robson's copy is the second pressing with their later address of "75 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY". Hans has information that the Broadway address was used until late 1973, but as this label is dated 1974 the move must have been later.

Thanks to Wim van der Mark, Kenneth Robson and Hans Seegers for information and scans.


Atco SD 7040 (UK) - scan by Wim van der Mark

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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - rear scan by Kenneth Robson
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - original Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers (with R-0106 - R-0109)

Atco SD 7040 (USA) - detail of original Side 1, scan by Hans Seegers
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - original Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers (with R-0110)
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - inner sleeve front, scan by Kenneth Robson
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - inner sleeve rear, scan by Kenneth Robson
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - later Side 1 scan by Kenneth Robson (with R-0106 - R-0109)


Atco SD 7040 (USA) - detail of later Side 1, scan by Kenneth Robson

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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - later Side 2 scan by Kenneth Robson (with R-0110)

Also illustrated here is Atlantic ATL 10398, a very rare 7" promo single from this album released in West Germany in 1973 before the album was released in 1974. The two tracks of the single, (I've Got To Use My) Imagination and Dusty Country (both from Side 2 of the album), do not have Bob performing, but the label lists Bob as co-producer. This single is unique in that it was the only worldwide Atlantic promo release to have its own picture sleeve, all other promo releases used generic sleeves.


Atlantic ATL 10398 (West Germany) - front scan by Hans Seegers


Atlantic ATL 10398 (West Germany) - rear scan by Hans Seegers


Atlantic ATL 10398 (West Germany) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers


Atlantic ATL 10398 (West Germany) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers


"Greatest Hits" - stereo cassette, CBS 40-62847 (NL), 1974:


CBS 40-62847 (NL)- front of insert, scan by Nol Grint
R-0656 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - shorter single edit (2:06)
This is an edited version shorter than the single edit, R-0052 (see 1966). It only has the first two verses and unlike the single edit it fades out in the final instrumental section. Although the cover shows the time as 2.06 it actually plays as 2.02.

This edit turned up in 1976 on a CBS Greek Greatest Hits LP, see 1976.

Thanks to Nol Grint for information and scans.


CBS 40-62847 (NL)- inside of insert, scan by Nol Grint

CBS 40-62847 (NL)- Side 1 scan by Nol Grint

"A Fool Such As I"/"Lily Of The West" - international promo and commercial stereo 7" singles, Columbia/CBS, Jan 1974 onwards:

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CBS Serie Gemini CBS 2006 (France) - front (my copy)
For details of all single and EP releases of A Fool Such As I, now see here.

For the now out-of-print Columbia Dylan album from which these tracks were taken, see 1973.

See here for a note about writer credits for the A-side, often wrongly credited by Columbia to Buford Abner, but actually written by Bill Trader.


Bob Dylan/The Band - "On A Night Like This" - mono/stereo 7" promo single, Asylum AS 11033 (USA), 7 Mar 1974:

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Asylum AS 11033 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant)
R-0454 On A Night Like This - mono version on B-side of Asylum radio station promo 7" single
This is a reduction to mono from stereo, as no mono version of this album was released.

This promo single with two label variations had the regular stereo album version on the other side. For the stereo side of this single, see Promotional Singles 1970-79.

With the first variant (left), the placing of "MONO" as the last line on the right implies it was pressed at Pitman, NJ. With the second variant (right), the placing of "MONO" as the top line implies it was pressed at Santa Maria, CA. For details of Asylum pressing plants in the USA, see below.

For details of other Asylum/Island 7" single releases with On A Night Like This in stereo, see US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1974-76.

For the generic 1974 US Asylum sleeves used to house these singles, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

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Asylum AS 11033 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Bob Dylan/The Band - "Something There Is About You" - mono/stereo 7" promo single, Asylum AS 11035 (USA), 10 May 1974:


Asylum AS 11035 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant)
R-0684 Something There Is About You - mono version on B-side of Asylum radio station promo 7" single
This is a reduction to mono from stereo, as no mono version of this album was released.

This promo single with two label variations had the regular stereo album version on the other side. For the stereo side of this single, see Promotional Singles 1970-79.

With the first variant (left), the placing of "MONO" as the last line on the right implies it was pressed at Pitman, NJ. With the second variant (right), the placing of "MONO" as the top line implies it was pressed at Santa Maria, CA. For details of Asylum pressing plants in the USA, see below.

For details of other Asylum/Island 7" single releases with Tough Mama on the B-side, see US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1974-76.

For the generic 1974 US Asylum sleeves used to house these singles, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.


Asylum AS 11035 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Bob Dylan/The Band - "Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine" - mono/stereo 7" promo single, Asylum AS 11043 (USA), 1974:
These Asylum singles were made at three different pressing plants in the USA, each is identified by a code on the single label: CSM - Santa Maria, CA; CTH - Terre Haute, IN; SP - Pitman, NJ.

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Asylum AS 11043 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (mono - "SP"=Pitman, NJ)
R-0543 Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine - mono version of Before The Flood album track live with The Band on B-side of Asylum radio station promo 7" single
This is a reduction to mono from stereo, as no mono version of this album was released.

For the stereo side of this single, see Promotional Singles 1970-79.

For the regular US and internationally released stereo singles, see  US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1974-76.

For the generic 1974 US Asylum sleeves used to house these singles, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

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Asylum AS 11043 7" promo single (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (stereo - "SP"=Pitman, NJ)
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Asylum AS 11043 7" promo single (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (stereo - "CSM"=Santa Maria, CA)

Bob Dylan/The Band - "It Ain't Me, Babe"/"All Along The Watchtower" - 7" mono/stereo singles, Asylum E-45212 (USA), Summer 1974:
These tracks are live with The Band and reductions to mono from stereo, as no mono version of this album was released..

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Asylum E-45212 (USA) promo A-side (mono) - scan by Hans Seegers
Promo single A-sides (left):

R-0113 It Ain't Me, Babe (3:15) - I previously reported this as a different performance from that on Before The Flood (recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show), but the story is more complicated!

Les Kokay reports in "Isis" issue 102 that, while the performances are essentially the same, there is a noticeable difference on the last line of the third verse: on the album track and the regular singles (USA, West Germany, Spain) Bob sings "It still ain't me, babe"; here he sings just the expected "It ain't me, babe." Les' theory is that on this promo version the last three lines of the third verse are spliced in from the afternoon performance of the same date.

Promo single B-sides (right):

R-0112 All Along The Watchtower - "mono" edit of Before The Flood version (2:58), also recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show

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Asylum E-45212 (USA) promo B-side (edit) - scan by Hans Seegers
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Asylum E-45212 (USA) promo A-side (mono) - variant scan by Hans Seegers
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Asylum E-45212 (USA) promo B-side (edit) - variant scan by Hans Seegers
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Asylum E-45212 (USA) regular single A-side (mono) - scan by Hans Seegers
Regular single:

R-0555 It Ain't Me, Babe - Before The Flood version with The Band, recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show, in false mono
This would appear just to be the "mono" version of the album track

R-0112-2 All Along The Watchtower - "mono" edit of Before The Flood version (2:58), also recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show

No versions of this single come with a picture sleeve. For the generic US Asylum sleeves used in 1974, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Information from Hans Seegers and Les Kokay, all scans from Hans Seegers.

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Asylum E-45212 (USA) regular single B-side (edit) - scan by Hans Seegers

Various Artists - "Disconnected - The Dial-A-Poem Poets Double" - vinyl 2LP set, Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA), 1974
2LP set in a gatefold sleeve. Bob's contribution was recorded New York, Nov 1971, at the same session that produced September On Jessore Road (see 1972), Going To San Diego, Vomit Express (for both, see 1982) and A Dream (see 1994).


Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - front scan by Kenneth Robson
R-0158 Jimmy Berman Rag (Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan) - Bob contributes vocals and plays guitar, piano and organ for Allen Ginsberg

This track also appeared on the 1982 album Allen Ginsberg's First Blues, John Hammond Records, see 1982.

Thanks to Kenneth Robson for information and scans.


Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - inside of gatefold sleeve, scan by Kenneth Robson

Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - rear scan by Kenneth Robson

Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - Side 1 scan by Kenneth Robson (no Dylan)

Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - Side 2 scan by Kenneth Robson (no Dylan)

Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - Side 3 scan by Kenneth Robson (R-0158)

Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - Side 4 scan by Kenneth Robson (no Dylan)

"Bringing It All Back Home" - 8-track release, Columbia 18 10 0024/Columbia House PCA 24 (USA), 1974?:

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Columbia 18 10 0024 (USA) - front used for both releases, scan by Hans Seegers

R-0522 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - shortened by two verses

This 8-track edition was released twice, both times with the same front cover in red cartridges. There was also a Columbia House record club edition with different packaging (the example shown is still sealed in a slipcase and has a black cartridge). Note the first variant of 18 10 0024 has three separate glued labels while the second has two - the rear label folds over the end.

Thanks to Thomas Wilmeth for the information and to Hans Seegers for further information and scans.

For more pictures, see International Albums (Regular).

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Columbia House PCA 24 (USA) - slipcase front scan by Hans Seegers


"Blonde On Blonde" - 8-track release, Columbia 18 20 0012 (USA), 1974?:
For stereo LP and 8-track releases of Blonde On Blonde, see the page for that album in International Album Releases (Regular). Also see 1966 - Blonde On Blonde Rarities.

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Columbia 18 20 0012 (USA) - slipcase front scan by Hans Seegers

R-0523 Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - with shortened instrumental break (missing first eight bars)

This release is in a slipcase with a black cartridge with two labels (the rear label folds over the end as on two of the three Bringing It All Back Home examples above).

Thanks to Thomas Wilmeth for the information and to Hans Seegers for further information and scans.

Note that Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again is on the fourth track with Sad Eyed Lady of The Lowlands, and mistitled "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The" (repeating a mistake from the first US release). For a British release with the error "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With Thee", see The Blonde On Blonde Missing Pictures.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. For more pictures, see International Albums (Regular).


"Nashville Skyline" - Quadraphonic LPs, Columbia CQ 32872 (USA)/CBS Q 63601 (Spain), 1974:

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Columbia CQ 32872 (USA) - cover scan by Olav Langum

R-0114 Country Pie - 16 seconds longer than standard album version and mixed differently

R-0599 Many tracks mixed differently - not separately listed

At the time there were three incompatible audio systems for quadraphonic sound - Columbia releases were for the Sony SQ system.

A specially-licensed Half Speed Master version of Nashville Skyline, prepared by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab was released in the USA in 1981, see the page for Nashville Skyline in  International Album Releases (Regular).

Thanks to Olav Langum, Hans Seegers and Robert Kornovich for information and scans. For more pictures, see International Albums (Regular).


"Planet Waves" - Quadraphonic LP, Asylum EQ-1003 (USA)/Quadraphonic 8-track tape cartridge, Asylum 8Q-1003 (USA), 1974:
For stereo LP and 8-track releases of Planet Waves, see the page for that album in International Album Releases (Regular). Before The Flood was also released by Asylum as a two 8-track set, but as far as I know in stereo only.


Asylum EQ-1003 (USA)
- front scan by Hans Seegers

R-0115  Forever Young (second version) - this mix has a longer intro (2:52 - regular version is 2:48)

Many other tracks are also mixed differently.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. See International Album Releases (Regular) for more pictures.


Asylum 8Q-1003 (USA) - tape cartridge top scan by Hans Seegers

Various Artists - "The Bitter End Years" - 3LP set, Roxbury RLX 300 (USA), Oct 1974:


Roxbury RLX 300 (USA) - picture from Wim van der Mark
R-0057-2 Who Do You Love? (Elias McDaniels - "Bo Diddley") - Bob was once thought to be the "Roosevelt Gook" who plays piano for Tom Rush on this track taken from Tom's 1966 Elektra album Take A Little Walk With Me, see 1966.

Thanks to Wim van der Mark for information and picture.

Details of this album are now included in Red Herrings.


"Blood On The Tracks" - 12" test pressings, Columbia S-19322 (USA), Sep, Oct & Dec 1974:
The famous so-called "New York Sessions" version of the album from A&R Recording Studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York (the former Columbia Studios used by Bob in the 1960s).


Blood On The Tracks test pressing - Side 1 scan from Michael Krogsgaard's book "Master of the Tracks" (this version is dated "9/25/74" on the left above the "33 1/3 RPM" and does not have "S-19322" on the right - it also does not have track timings)
Note the track order is the same as the released album

This test pressing contains five still unreleased tracks:

R-0120 Tangled Up In Blue - unreleased take with different lyrics

R-0117 You're A Big Girl Now - alternate take (a remixed version of this take appears on Biograph)

R-0118 Idiot Wind - unreleased take with different lyrics

R-0119 If You See Her, Say Hello - unreleased take with different lyrics

R-0116 Lily, Rosemary & The Jack Of Hearts - unreleased take with extra verse

Bob re-recorded these five tracks at the last minute in Minnesota in Dec 1974 with local musicians, some say because he felt there was a little too much "blood on the tracks", others say it was because his brother David Zimmerman convinced him that all the tracks on the album sounded too similar. Ellen Bernstein may also have had a role in convincing Bob to change the album.

The New York Sessions versions of Idiot Wind; If You See Her, Say Hello and Tangled Up In Blue released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 are previously unreleased alternate takes to R-0118, R-0119 and R-0120. None of the five tracks from the test pressing replaced on the released album has yet been released in its original form. This is reportedly because they had already been widely bootlegged, and it was decided to include versions that were new to fans on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3. (An unreleased alternate take of Shelter From The Storm with an extra verse was released in 1996 on the soundtrack of the film Jerry Maguire, see 1996.) Dale Hargraves has a copy of the first release of the regular album (see International Album Releases) with matrix numbers Side 1 - PAL-33235-2E, Side 2 - PBL-33235-1A that appears to have the test pressing on Side 2 with R-0119 and R-0116. This has never been reported anywhere else!

The main tracks for the album were recorded on 16-19 Sep 1974. According to Clinton Heylin's 1996 book "A Life In Stolen Moments - Bob Dylan Day By Day: 1941-1995" there was an overdub session on 23-25 Sep 1974, and Phil Ramone made a test pressing for Bob on 25 Sep. Heylin says this contained an approved sequence for the album that remained unchanged, but the label illustrations for the "9/25/74" test pressing from Michael Krogsgaard's 1991 book "Master of the Tracks" (first and second above) show that tracks 2 and 4 were swapped on Side 2. The song titles also underwent revision from pressing to pressing, as can be seen from the labels.

The first pressing labels are missing the catalogue number "S-19322", the side number, and also the track timings that appear on the second pressing labels.

Michael Krogsgaard's 1996 article "Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, Part 3" doesn't list any recording sessions for 23-25 Sep 1975 but gives the date of the Griffin overdub session as 8 Oct 1974 (the date of the test pressing label in Heylin's "Day by Day" book). The Heylin labels dated "10/8/74" are third and fourth on the left. These show a different track sequence on Side 1 (which was apparently not retained for the final test pressing). Side 2 now has the final sequence.

In his 1996 book "Dylan: Behind Closed Doors - The Recording Sessions 1960-1994" Clinton Heylin says that a final test pressing was made on either 6 Dec 1974 or 16 Dec 1974 (the date on the label is unclear because of a typo - I assume it's something like "12//6/74"). This had the final track sequence and was the version Bob played to David Zimmerman. I don't have pictures of these labels.

Because Michael Krogsgaard dates the Griffin overdub session as 10 Oct 1974, there has been speculation that the first pressing has a currently uncirculating version of Idiot Wind without the Paul Griffin overdub. However, Tony Brown, the bassist for the Blood On The Tracks sessions, says the organ is indeed present on Idiot Wind on the "9/25/74" acetate. Tony Brown says that he and Paul Griffin played with Bob on all takes of Idiot Wind, and he does not remember Paul Griffin recording overdubs. Tony does, however, remember steel guitarist Buddy Cage recording overdubs - these are noted in the Krogsgaard article. The issue of the 8 Oct 1974 overdub session remains unresolved, but it appears that all the test pressings of Blood On The Tracks, despite different track sequences, have the same musical material.

For the various sleeve designs of the released album, and a Jan 1975 acetate that contains the released album, see the Blood On The Tracks page in International Album Releases (Regular).

Thanks to Jonathan P. Foulkes for the information about the two different circulating versions of this test pressing. Also thanks to Derek Barker, Bob Stacey, Peter Stone Brown for material included in this entry. Thanks to Michael Krogsgaard and Clinton Heylin for their respective books and articles. Thanks to Robin Platts of "Goldmine" magazine for information about the Columbia Reference Recording sold for auction on eBay in early 2008 for $5,000 which has typed labels omitting the album title but with track timings. The track order is the same as the released album, but the timings match the times of the tracks on the replaced version of the album.

The UK "Uncut" magazine's Jan 2005 issue had as its feature article the story of the recording of Blood On The Tracks in Sep and Dec 1974 "One of the most truthful dissections of love gone wrong in rock history.' Exactly 30 years after its release in January 1975, we present the full story of Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks." You can listen to the five replaced tracks from Blood On The Tracks at "Uncut"'s web-site here. Thanks to Fred Muller for spotting this.


Blood On The Tracks test pressing - Side 2 scan from Michael Krogsgaard's book "Master of the Tracks"
Note the differing track order from the released album

Blood On The Tracks test pressing - Side 1 scan from Clinton Heylin's book "Bob Dylan Day By Day" (this version is dated "10/8/74" on the left below the "33 1/3 RPM" and does have "S-19322" on the right plus track timings)
Note the differing track order from the released album

Blood On The Tracks test pressing - Side 2 scan from Clinton Heylin's book "Bob Dylan Day By Day"
Track order this time is now the same as the released album
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Blood On The Tracks Columbia Reference Recording - Side 1 photo from eBay found by Robin Platts
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Blood On The Tracks Columbia Reference Recording - Side 2 photo from eBay found by Robin Platts

"Gold Disc" - vinyl compilation album in gold foil sleeve, CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan), 1974:

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CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) - front scan by Hans Seegers

Sadly scans of the gold foil cover of this compilation, Vol. 17 of a series of "Gold Disc" compilations exclusive to Japan, cannot do it justice.

I previously had this listed for 1972, but Hans Seegers points out that the front cover picture (which you can only see vaguely here) is a stage photo of Bob from 1974! Confusingly John Shaw says he purchased his copy in Japan in 1973, a date which he is sure of.

The picture on the left shows a price of ¥2,200 on the yellow, black and white obi, but the copy below has a blue sticker on the obi changing the price to ¥2,400. Apparently this was done in 1975 prior to reprinting the obis. John Shaw's copy is priced at ¥2,200.

R-0084-6 George Jackson - "Big Band" version from 1971 single (see 1971), also on Mr. D's Collection # 2 (see 1977) and Masterpieces (see 1978)

Side 1: Blowin In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; My Back Pages; Mr. Tambourine Man; Like A Rolling Stone; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; I Want You.

Side 2: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Girl From The North Country (with Johnny Cash); Lay, Lady, Lay; If Not For You; Watching The River Flow; George Jackson ("Big Band" version).

For an extracted Gold Disc 7" EP with Blowin In The Wind; Like A Rolling Stone; The Times They Are A-Changin' and Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, see US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1974-76.

Thanks to Hans Seegers, Shawn Chambers and Ulf Gyllenspetz for pictures and information.

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CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) - front photograph by Ulf Gyllenspetz (this copy has a blue sticker with raised price ¥2,400)
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CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) -rear scan by Hans Seegers
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CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) - inside photograph by Ulf Gyllenspetz

CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers
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CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) - inside photograph by Ulf Gyllenspetz


CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers (with R-0084)

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CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) - inside photograph by Ulf Gyllenspetz

"Mr. D's Collection # 1" - promo LP, CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan), 31 Dec 1974:
This is the album that first collected Bob Dylan rarities together, and it was only been released in Japan on vinyl as a strictly limited edition. I originally had this included here in 1974, but then moved it to 1977 on mistaken advice. This album was released three years before the extracted EP, Mr. D's Collection #2, which definitely dates from 1977. Hans Seegers has now confirmed the above date for this.

The Mr. D's Collection records were given away to Japanese fans in exchange for tokens collected from CBS/Sony albums (the obi or part of the obi). See 1977 for the EP Mr. D's Collection #2, and 1993 for the CD Mr. D's Collection # 3, a CD release. All these items were produced in limited quantities only, and are very collectable. Hans Seegers tells me that you had to send in ten tokens within only one month, so it meant a lot of upfront expenditure to get the album! It's time the material on this album and much more was made available on a commercially available Bob Dylan CD worldwide!

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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - front scan by Lars M. Banke

Side 1:

R-0095-2 I'm So Restless (Roger McGuinn) - with Roger McGuinn,  from his 1973 self-titled Columbia album (see 1973)
Bob gets a name check in the lyrics as "Mr. D", which inspired this collection's title!

R-0002-3 I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley) - with Carolyn Hester, from her 1962 self-titled Columbia album, see 1962 (stereo version)
For a complete list of all the compilations this track has appeared on, also see 1962.

R-0145 Mixed Up Confusion - this is not the original US mono single (R-0007, see 1962). This is an alternate take (probably still mono) (2:30) that doesn't have the harmonica solo immediately after Bob's introduction "I've got mixed up confusion, man, it's a-killin' me!".
According to Rob van Estrik this version, which also appears on the 1977 Japanese EP Mr. D's Collection # 2 (see 1977), the 1978 Australian set Masterpieces (see 1978), and in an edited form on the original 1985 issue of Biograph (R-0748, see 1985), runs slightly slow. Steve Espinola adds to this: "The Masterpieces and Biograph alternate take runs about a semitone slower than the single take, making Bob sound overly mature and serious.  If the alternate take is sped up to the pitch of the single, it comes across as much more light-hearted.  It also becomes a song in G, a much more likely correct pitch than F#.". For details of the four released alternate takes of this song, see 1962. Many thanks to Les Kokay for all his information about these alternate takes, and for permission to reproduce his findings and to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for further information.

From a Buick 6 - I was originally informed this was the alternate take with the harmonica intro (R-0046, see 1965), but this track is now revealed to be the regular version from Highway 61 Revisited. As the Japanese 12" vinyl version of the album had the alternate take, this was then the "alternate" version to them! It had previously appeared in Japan only on a 1966 stereo EP - see US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1962-69.

R-0085-2 George Jackson - Acoustic version from 1971 single, see 1971

Side 2:

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
I am now positively informed that the version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? in this set is in mono, and not the stereo version unavailable on commercial CD. The version available as on Masterpieces (1978) and Biograph (1985, remastered CD reissue 1997) and the 2001 Essential Bob Dylan/Ultimate Bob Dylan compilations is also from the original single and still in mono! The version on a CBS Spanish 7" EP and single was in mispressed mono and not in stereo as previously reported, see 1972.

R-0054-4 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - live at Liverpool with The Hawks, May 1966, B-side of mono I Want You singles (see 1966)
This live version, never released on a regular Columbia album, is also on the Japanese promo EP Mr. D's Collection #2 (see 1977), the 1978 Australian set Masterpieces (see 1978), the Japanese Mr. D's Collection #3 promo CD (see 1993), and the Capitol/EMI boxed set The Band: A Musical History (see 2005). All versions are as far as I know still in mono as originally recorded. Sadly, it does not appear on the B-side of a withdrawn CBS Spanish EP (see 1972), because the record was mispressed with It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry from Highway 61 Revisited instead!

R-0072-2 Spanish Is The Loving Tongue - solo 1971 single B-side version (see 1971), also on Masterpieces, see 1978
This is not the version with band and backing singers from the 1973 Dylan album (R-0096, see 1973).

R-0074-2 Nashville Skyline Rag - version with Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded at Tom Allen's home, Carmel, NY, Dec 1970.
For the original 1971 Columbia release of Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family and Friends, see 1971

R-0084-7 George Jackson - "Big Band" version from 1971 single (see 1971), also on Mr. D's Collection # 2 (see 1977) and Masterpieces (see 1978)

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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - rear scan by Hans Seegers
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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers
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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - detail of insert showing release date of "1974 12 31", scan by Hans Seegers


Mono Singles & EPs for 1974

These are now here: Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1970-76. There were no mono Dylan LPs released in 1974.


Promotional Items for 1974

Stereo promo items for 1974 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now here: International Promotional Releases. Promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles are now located on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases.

For the Bob Dylan and The Band promo singles of On A Night Like This/Forever Young (UK), On A Night Like This/You Angel, You (France - test pressing, West Germany) and Something There Is About You/Tough Mama (West Germany) previously listed here, see International 7" Singles 1974-76.


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